Notwithstanding the alarmist and ultimately misguided title, there’s some truth to what Nick is saying in the article, namely that our ability to deep-think is partly a function of our need to deep-think, and in light of the Internet doing a lot of that thinking for us, we’re losing our ability to call on that skill. In fact, I think a lot of the people who linked to this article were perpetuators of the very problem the article highlights: they skimmed the title and came to an automatic conclusion, without even attempting to digest the content.
I hate to say it, but Nick really has just scratched the surface here; I think the issue is bigger than most people realize. Sure, my perspective may be a bit biased in that I’m certainly a crazy edge-case for which this situation hits very close to home, but, and as I’ve said for years, my “edge-caseness” will increasingly become the norm.
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